Jacob A. Harzfeld, lawyer and Zionist leader, died today at the age of 60. He was found critically wounded in a washroom near his office yesterday with a pistol lying nearby.
Mr. Harzfeld was one of the authors of the constitution of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
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